Of the imagination, as a cause and as a cure of disorders of the body; exemplified by fictitious tractors, and epidemical convulsions. Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bath / by John Haygarth.

Date:
1800
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Credit: Of the imagination, as a cause and as a cure of disorders of the body; exemplified by fictitious tractors, and epidemical convulsions. Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bath / by John Haygarth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    TRACTORS, I ^ I 'HAT faculty of the mind which is deno- minated the Imagination, has been the fubjeft of two very elegant compofitiOns in the Englifli language, in profe and poetry, by Addison and Akenside. it has not wholly efcaped the notice of medical WTiters, but merits their farther invefti- gation. This flight Eflay may, perhaps, incite others to profecute this inquiry more fully, in order to extend the power of phyficians to prevent and cure the maladies of mankind. §.i. in phyfick as well as iii philofophy, to difcover the caufe of an effefl is frequently a very nice and difficult inveftigation. The fuccefs of medical praftice eflentially depends upon this faculty of fuga- cious difcernment. One who is carried away by every B